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justinp



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LED Headlamp - are these suitable?
Hi Chaps,

Do these headlamps look suitable for a 2012 Defender? I'm told they have the relevant approvals for the MOT so they may be a cheap upgrade to LED headlights.


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Many thanks - Justin
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Everything that it says reads fine, just up to you whether you think it's too good to be true or not.

Passing an MOT doesn't necessarily mean it's legal, but they say they have European Type Approval and you can see the little mark on the lens. If you assume that the lumen rating is for a pair (which it must be because that would be mad for one) and if you assume that those are theoretical LED lumens as opposed to actual output lumens (which you'd expect as they usually use the highest rated if they only show one rating) then they're slightly less than the Noldens.

IP rating of 67 is for temporary immersion which is fine, but it doesn't give any water jet rating (IP66 or IP69k for instance) so you don't know how well they'd do for pressure washing. FWIW the Noldens only give a jet rating (IP69k) but don't give an immersion rating so you can't hold that against them too much Whistle TBH anything's going to be better than the standard units in water resistance.

What setup do you have at the moment? You can gain huge improvements over the factory candles by upgrading the wiring and the headlight units themselves.
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Stacey007



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^ What sort of price are these.


I was looking at similar and yes they are not expensive but surely an increase in the std candles and also look better ?
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There's an interesting video on mobilecentres FB page that reviews about 12 different led headlamp units ... The results may surprise a lot of owners Whistle
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You had to didn't you Rolling with laughter
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bpman



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Whistle
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ericvv



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bpman wrote:
There's an interesting video on mobilecentres FB page that reviews about 12 different led headlamp units ... The results may surprise a lot of owners Whistle


Any way to see that movie if you are not a FB user?
Eric You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation.
http://youtu.be/yVRlSsJwD0o
https://youtu.be/vmPr3oTHndg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GtzTT9Pdl0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqKPz28e6A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZ49Jce_n0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAsz_ilQYU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tMHiX9lSw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwjPuHIV7I
https://vimeo.com/201482507
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSixqL0iyHw
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bpman



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Try this ....


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ericvv



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How interesting. Some real surprises in there. Laughing
Will be interesting to find the individual tests mentioned in that movie for each of those lights. Speaker, Nolden and Trucklite in the first place. Thumbs Up You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation.
http://youtu.be/yVRlSsJwD0o
https://youtu.be/vmPr3oTHndg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GtzTT9Pdl0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqKPz28e6A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZ49Jce_n0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAsz_ilQYU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tMHiX9lSw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwjPuHIV7I
https://vimeo.com/201482507
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSixqL0iyHw


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Post #556512 16th Aug 2016 7:37pm
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H3nry



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Interesting thing to see Nolden's report.
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